Artists' Books & Small Press Editions

Pyclets are round savoury griddle cakes, made with flour, yeast and buttermilk, not dissimilar from crumpets and the kind of oatcake made in other parts of midlands Britain.They were sold from mobile carts in the gloriously gloomy entrance to the Derby Guildhall Covered Market...

Written and compiled by Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, Walking the Portes documents time spent in Paris while house-sitting for friends who had departed for warmer climes. Erica and Simon were left to water their hosts' plants and to explore Paris from their base...

Rare & Collectible A boxed set of the remaining copies of the Coracle A6 ephemera pamphlets, each one the subject of a single cultural phenomena, a small essay in 16 pages of digital reproduction. The pamphlet series was a reductive development of The Little Critic...

Philatelic Items documents 220 works produced over ten years by Lolly Batty. It includes an index showing the envelopes followed by a selection printed at actual-size. ⁣⁣Batty’s work playfully explores a geometric and systemic logic through the colour and value of the stamps used...

Each of the 168 pages of Crosswords presents a grid of 13 × 13 squares arranged in different black and white configurations, as though they were taken from 168 different crossword puzzles. Separated from any written clues to act as a reference, the gridded designs become...

TLA is an ongoing series of books featuring photographs of occurrences of three words in public areas. The photographs are printed one per page with the three letter acronym (or TLA) of the words at the top of the page. Each book gathers images...

Rare & Collectible This book was published as part of project the project PSYOP - Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow by artists Christoph Büchel & Giovanni Carmine highlighting the US Army’s psychological-warfare operations.  The book collects over 120 propaganda leaflets that...

Each folded booklet unfolds as a poster This volume of DETAILS examines the English county of Essex’s radical architectural sites. Through eight informative booklets, Radical Essex explores the county by means of its architectural details of the sites that show a progressive step into new...

Each folded booklet unfolds as a poster This volume in the DETAILS series explores the changing face of the City in light of more modern architectural and engineering techniques, from Sir John Soane’s Bank of England to the post-modernist gem that is No. 1...

The Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that...

The 200 photographs in Trataka record the gradual disappearance of a candle’s physical form and the subtly changing mood of a passing day. Wax is consumed by fire and a solid object converted to light and heat. Finally, a last trace of white smoke...

The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colourist, a remarkable draftsman, and a creative genius, this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in modern art....

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art. Books. Art, Craft...

For more than 35 years, Coracle has produced artists' books, critical works, editions and ephemera. Printed in Norfolk tells the story of this contemporary small press in all its manifestations as printer, publisher, bookshop and gallery. The emphasis here is on the years 1989-2012, when,...

Rare & Collectible A collection of short poems; brief sketches that turn everyday objects such as contact lenses or activities such as ironing into profound and remarkable subject matter. Dedicated to Margot Hapgood. PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are...

Rare & Collectible Cloth bound hardback & hand-painted dust jacket.  Coming up for Air is the result of a body of work made in Japan between 2008 and 2009. The images were created in Japan, but are not essentially about that country; rather, they convey a...

This publication documents an exhibition and seminar curated by Andrew Bick, Jonathan Parsons and Katie Pratt held at The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in early 2017. The title, The Order of Things, is taken from the English translation of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s 1966 book, Les Mots et les Choses, (literally...

The vinyl project uses installations made of vinyl film as signs and graphics output from the computer plotter and cutter. This was the single unifying means of making these works into a common medium, almost a theme of sorts. It was essentially a project for an...

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His Sounds (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. These “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple...

William Harry Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event which provides a...